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Just a bit more info, I've rebooted into the new system. Here's the |
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whole message: |
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VFS: Cannot open root device "hda3" or unknown-block(0,0) |
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Please append a correct "root=" boot option |
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Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on |
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unknown-block(0,0) |
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On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 10:30 +0000, frank wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> I've decided to reinstall my system to a stable one (I used ~x86 |
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> before). |
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> To prepare the disk I've wiped out all of / except /home and all |
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> of /boot. |
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> Th installation (according to the handbook) went smoothly. |
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> The new kernel starts up and then I get an VFS error saying that there |
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> is an invalid boot option root= ... and panics. |
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> /boot on /dev/hda1 or (hd0,0) is ext2, / on /dev/hda3 or (hd0,2) |
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> Here is my menu.lst: |
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> default 0 |
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> timeout 30 |
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> title=Initial |
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> root (hd0,0) |
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> kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.17-gentoo-r4_initial root=/dev/hda3 |
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> I've set up grub this way: |
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> grub> root (hd0,0) |
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> grub> setup (hd0) |
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> grub quit |
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> The kernel is configured for ext2 and ext3 filesystems. |
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> Has anyone an Idea? I don't have further :( |
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> Thanks in advance |
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> Frank |
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